Recently, Mija, who is a university student, hears about an idea to develop a canal by a television station. Mija hears that it is a good system for
Jung bin, who is a friend of hers, observed a canal during his European trip. As
Nowadays, there is an argument regarding the building of a Korean peninsula canal. Also, many people are interested in a Korean canal. One side said that the number of canals has increased dramatically throughout the world. That means that establishing canals is actually a world trend. Also, there are various advantages regarding national profit. And they emphasized that the function of the canal could be used to connect
Therefore, they object to the canal construction.
In this reality, it is important to look into ‘a canal’, and what information would make us decide wisely as voters.
At the present time, canals are constructed in diverse continents around the world. Asia, Europe, Africa and
Egyptian the Suez Canal and additional three canals are placed in the
Let’s find out two side of effects of canals; positive side and negative side.
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Before this, Nicaraguan announced that they would make a canal that can go across the Atlantic, so
Most experts say that Nicaraguan is determined to construct the canal, because they can expect the development of
As remarked above, the canal has a number of good points but does it always have a positive affect?
A German, who takes part in German environmental protection union, ‘Friends of International Earth’ and is in charge of maintaining the quality of river, said that the construction of the canal is wrong. His opinion is “Construction of canal leads to a lot of problems”. Nowadays, German canals are established by a lobby not considering economic efficiency. Nevertheless, German canals were kept well, because enterprise executives have lobbied continuously. Especially, constructing companies and a profit organization are affected by the construction of the canal.
Then, what is negative aspect of canal establishment?
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Have we thought that the canal establishment is only a trivial story so far?
There are various canals that jump over other country’s borders. Through the canals, some countries get many benefits, but the other countries are damaged by water pollution. Like this, canal construction needs cautious decision making. Now we need to deliberate as well informed decision-makers, and the thinking behind candidate’s public pledges about canal construction.
Interview
The Chung-Ang Herald met and interviewed professor, Cho won-cheol to better understand and canal and learned why canal is important thing, now. He is professor, school of civil & Env.
CAH : Can you explain a canal to university students who want to know more information about it?
Cho : Most people misunderstand canal construction. Using all parts of river is not necessarily important for building a canal. It just requires repairs to the banks and dredges the deep part of river for construction. Deep part of river functions as a road for ships and water vessels. Like these ways, we lessen the casualty of flood and use the water as agricultural water, and most canals can function as the road for vehicles.
CAH : Lately most people are concerned about canals. How can these canals affect our life beneficially?
Cho : Construction of a canal has both positive and negative side effects. First of all, the canal’s positive side is that it will relieve traffic jams being an alternative road to ride. Then our system of physical distribution and quantity of physical distribution will develop rapidly in 2020. Thus, construction of the canal will be decided based on the volume of traffic, the canal has been valued as an alternative road. The second is that the canal will make up a new scene of nature. The area will be lime lighted and become a new citizen’s rest place. This rest place is important to modernist. In contrast, a negative side effect is that the evaporation loss will increase so that the fog will happen more often than before.
Finally, considering the number of students who are interested in the construction of a canal, they should know important facts about the canal. Most people are passing over canal construction. Nature is changing all the time, but these changes go too far. We should maintain that nature is being destroyed. However, many people refuse to see this change because they think that only visible changes threaten the environment. They should not let even trivial changes cause destruction of nature. Have an open mind and accept new changes and then, try to make better. Also, do not to be afraid of making problems and endeavor to find solution rather than being a trouble maker. At present, most citizens are interested in construction of canal, youth generation has right to know about canal being acceptable or not.